Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842)

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 86

Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842)

Fig. 39 E–F

Kerivoula poensis Gray, 1842: 258 . In the DRC, G. poensis was collected at four localities in the northern half of the country, two in the northwestern part that were already reported by Hayman et al. (1966: 49, map 64), and two from the northeastern part. The one from Irangi (Nord-Kivu Province) is a relatively recent one, but the one from Faradje (Haut-Uélé) was already collected by Lang and Chapin. Allen (1917) doesn’t report any G. poensis specimens in their collection, and the only Glauconycteris from Faradje that he mentions is G. papilio (= G. variegata ). The original entry in the AMNH catalog mentions 15 G. papilio specimens from Niangara, Faradje and Aba, which were changed into Chalinolobus variegata (49056– 9), Glauconycteris variegata variegata (49060–4), Chalinolobus (Glauconycteris) variegata papilio (49065) and Glauconycteris variegata variegata (49066–70). The online catalog, however, mentions the entire series, with the exception of 49066, as Glauconycteris variegata variegata . That specimen is identified as G. poensis . Happold (2013 ae: 575) overlooked this record when drawing the map for this species. Her map indicates that G. poensis is primarily a West African species, with some outliers in the DRC. There is also a doubtful record from Marangu ( Tanzania) of which J. Kingdon (in Grimshaw et al. 1995) suggests that it was misidentified, and most likely belongs to G. variegata . The online catalog still mentions the underlying specimens (219772–4) as G. poensis . The SDM map indicates that this locality is situated far to the east, but it is not impossible that poensis could occur over there.

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Fig. 39. Distribution maps. A–B. Glauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter, 2001. C–D. Glauconycteris humeralis J.A. Allen, 1917. E–F. Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842). A, C, E. Distribution in the CRB area. B, D, F. Pan-African distribution.